Kohl Island

Kohl Island (52˚48'00" 128˚46'00" W side of Laredo Inlet, off SW Princess Royal I). William Kohl (d 1893), of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, was an early W coast ship owner and fur trader with extensive interests in Alaska. He came out for the California gold rush and stayed to operate steamers on the San Francisco–Sacramento run. In the 1860s, Kohl and his family lived at Victoria, but in the 1870s he bought a large property at San Mateo, California—now that city’s Central Park and...

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